# @thebookerprizes on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CVpf2KXsHAF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24487483-thebookerprizes-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/daa2e1bf8b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-10-30T09:52:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

## Caption

Continuing our #2021BookerPrize shortlist film series, created in partnership with the BBC and @Rural_Media, we have a contemporary adaptation of Nadifa Mohamed’s novel 'The Fortune Men', directed by @YeroBiutiful and starring Elmi Rashid Elmi 

Born in 1992, Yero is a British-Nigerian writer-director for TV and film, who has worked with the BBC, Channel 4, BFI, Sky, and Netflix. Yero is also a story editor for audio and worked on The Bias Diagnosis, an original Audible commission. 

Her award-winning short films Signs and Beneath the Surface have played at international festivals such as Encounters, Aesthetica and the BFI Future Film Festival, where she won a new talent award.  Her recent film, 0.5%, was commissioned by BBC Arts and will be released on iPlayer. Yero also recently directed the second unit of Alice Seabright’s upcoming BBC and Amazon TV show Chloe

She is a graduate of New Creatives, a scheme funded by Arts Council England and BBC Arts to highlight the best of emerging film and TV talent

#TheFortuneMenToWin #BookerPrize #YeroTimiBiu #ElmiRashidElmi #RuralMedia #NewCreatives #EmergingTalentUK @VikingBooksUK @PenguinBooks

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Booker Prizes | @thebookerprizes | https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes | Awards Organization |

## Tags

bookerprize, newcreatives, emergingtalentuk, ruralmedia, thefortunementowin, elmirashidelmi, 2021bookerprize, yerotimibiu

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